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Gene Wolfe

"Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard."

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"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."

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"In worthy teaching, all things are related."

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"Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know.The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge."

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"It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know."

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"Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it."

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"A sage is a good teacher, but an even greater learner."

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Amber Hurdle

"Standing on the shoulders of the great allows you to see further than everyone."

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"So vast is art, so narrow human wit."

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"Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them."

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"He's not rewarding us by talking to us. He's talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity."
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"My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver."
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"A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School."
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"Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later."
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"Whether the medium is ready for consumers is better judged by those consumers. I sometimes read online - but not often. The stigma is attached to pay scales. Much online publication is no pay or small pay."
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"I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them."
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"Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard."
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